Out in Front: July 4, 1996

Matrox will discontinue development of the Matrox Incite nonlinear editing application and is offering its DigiSuite product line to third-party digital-video providers. The line includes digital video boards and Windows NT software tools that provide a platform for broadcast, cable, and post-production applications, including nonlinear editing systems, digital disk recorders, broadcast media servers, live-video switchers, and commercial-insertion systems. The Incite development team plans to extend the DigiSuite product line to include complementary hardware, a Windows NT ActiveMovie-based software developers' kit, and drivers to let application developers access DigiSuite features. D/Vision (Chicago), the first company to announce a DigiSuite-based application, will use the platform for the company's PostSuite-XED Windows NT-based, nonlinear edition application. The DigiSuite boards are available to developers now and will be available to end users in the third quarter.

—by Fran Granville

Matrox Video Products Group, Dorval, PQ, Canada. (514) 685-2630, fax (514) 685-2853, http://www.matrox.com/video.